A.D. 2056.
After years of development, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall has long since become the world's most renowned and powerful organization.
Spreading across the globe, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall has cultivated generations of martial artists who have stepped onto the stage of history. Through the word-of-mouth of countless fighters, the reputation of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall has only grown louder!
With the world's number one powerhouse, Hong, presiding over the headquarters in Hongning Base City, and his five great inspectors suppressing all sides, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall has reached its current peak in both influence and strength after thirty years of development.
Even if any one of the Five Great Nations were to exhaust its entire national strength to face the Extreme Martial Arts Hall alone, they would inevitably feel a lack of confidence.
Why!?
The top-tier strength and high-level combat power between the two are completely lopsided; they are not on the same scale at all!
What would they even use to fight them!?
Not to mention Hong, who is known as the world's strongest; his power has already been mythologized. Looking across the globe, only the world's second-strongest, Thor, is barely qualified to keep pace with him.
Just look at the five great inspectors under the Extreme Martial Arts Hall. Each one is an invincible existence surpassing the War God Level, and any warrior who surpasses the War God Level possesses the power to destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth!
One must know that even powerful entities like the Five Great Nations must treat such powerhouses with extreme caution.
Yet, under the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, the number of such powerhouses far exceeds five!
Counting the forces under the governments of the Five Great Nations, each nation at most controls only two or three such invincible powerhouses. Their top-tier strength is simply not on the same order of magnitude!
Of course.
Even with the Extreme Martial Arts Hall being so powerful today, thirty years ago, just after the Great Nirvana had ended and the Extreme Martial Arts Hall was still in its infancy, it was nothing more than an inconspicuous little martial arts hall.
If not for its founder, that man who had already stood at the very pinnacle of the world, Hong, and his years of meticulous cultivation, I fear the Extreme Martial Arts Hall would never have grown to where it is today!?
To this day, the reason for the founding of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall is impossible to verify. After all, that was thirty years ago, and I suspect even Hong himself couldn't give a straight answer.
(Of course, this is definitely not because no one dares to ask Hong to his face; I swear it on my integrity!)
However, there was once an unreliable source claiming that on the day before the Extreme Martial Arts Hall was founded, in Jingdu Base City, at an old-fashioned shop on the southeast corner of the Heping Gate intersection on Qianmen West Street (formerly Xuanwu District), Hong and Thor—the world's first and second strongest—had a brief meeting.
Moreover, according to an unknown screenwriter from the Hongning Daily, an indescribable contributor once submitted an article on February 29, 2033, titled The Untold Story of the Founding of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall: Prequel. It is said that the article detailed how the national leaders at the time begged bitterly, how Hong and Thor politely refused, and how they finally agreed to the request out of social obligation, founding the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and the Thunder Martial Arts Hall respectively.
How much of this is true and how much is false, we cannot know. After all, there was no February 29th in 2033...
Furthermore, after rigorous investigation by multiple parties, we discovered that this so-called unknown screenwriter for the Hongning Daily was actually just a delusional patient who had escaped from the Hongning Psychiatric Hospital...
Although the sources are slightly unreliable, it is not difficult to find a common thread between these two pieces of information.
We may never know the detailed content of their conversations, but looking back at the history of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's development, it is easy to see that the first base cities where the Extreme Martial Arts Hall flourished were clearly the major base cities belonging to the Huaxia Nation!
Furthermore, according to reliable information, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's headmaster and founder, Hong, is of pure Huaxia descent, though he was taken abroad for assassin training when he was very young.
Yet, Hong himself still holds a great deal of affection for the Huaxia Nation!
In particular, according to incomplete statistics, among the current high-level leaders of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, over 70% of the five inspectors and the inspectors of the twenty-three base cities are of Huaxia descent.
From this, it is not hard to see that there may indeed have been some "backroom deals" involved.
Of course, this hasn't been happening for just a year or two; the other major nations have seen it all.
Their hearts are bitter, but they dare not speak.
The main reason is that speaking out wouldn't change anything anyway!
Hong is a rather overbearing person, and he doesn't listen to reason at all. If you push him too far, he might just pull out his long spear and skewer you!
(Hong: You can offer your opinions to me, but I guarantee I won't change!)
And let's not even discuss whether Hong's long spear is a "proper" spear, but those eager-to-fight inspectors of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall are definitely not "proper" inspectors!
Damn it!
For years, America has been secretly relying on arms exports, even peddling laser cannons on the sly, making a fortune and earning a mountain of money.
If it weren't for the fact that at the highest meetings of the War God Palace, Hong and Thor strictly forbade human powerhouses from slaughtering each other in the open, those five restless inspectors would have long since moved out and swept away the gold bars that the American Federation has kept hidden for years!
Ahem! Off-topic!
Since the establishment of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, the Huaxia government has provided people when asked and land when asked; they've practically turned their own hearts inside out for them.
Hong is a decent man, too! When he looked at the Huaxia Nation, he thought, "What good people!"
They provided the people, the effort, and even gave such a large plot of land for them to build their headquarters, halls, and residential areas for martial artists—he couldn't just keep taking advantage of them, could he?
So, what to do?
Simple!
The Extreme Martial Arts Hall doesn't have much, but we have plenty of people who can fight!
If there's a place that needs demolishing or a place that needs blowing up, one phone call and the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's demolition squad will arrive on-site immediately!
Ahem!
Looking back at the Great Nirvana period, the journey has been truly difficult. Especially after the six major base cities were built, how many beast tides have we endured!?
These monsters are the same; you can't keep shearing the same sheep, or you'll leave it bald!
Especially after the scales of the monsters evolved, firearms and ammunition became largely ineffective against these thick-skinned beasts. The only things that can truly influence the course of war are those War God Level warriors who are comparable to a demolition squad!
Don't be fooled by the prevalence of martial arts and the countless powerhouses; the number of War God Level warriors truly under government control is only a handful.
More War God Level experts, as well as those who have surpassed the War God Level, are all under the command and rule of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, the Thunder Martial Arts Hall, and the HR Underground Alliance.
Furthermore, the War God Level martial artists under government jurisdiction must be distributed among the various base cities; having even a few War God Level martial artists stationed in a single base city is already considered quite rare.
The only duty required of the inspectors stationed in the major base cities is to shoulder their responsibilities when those cities encounter crises, taking on the tough Lord Level monsters and repelling incoming beast tides.
So Easy!
Consequently, over these many years, this has evolved into an unspoken understanding between the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and the Huaxia Nation.
More importantly, there is almost no conflict of interest between the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and the Huaxia Nation!
Although the Extreme Martial Arts Hall is now the largest power in the world, the martial arts hall is positioned much like a school that educates and nurtures talent. The only difference is that while schools teach scientific and theoretical knowledge, they teach the knowledge of human body cultivation.
Moreover, Hong and Thor are both martial artists devoted solely to the path of martial arts, so the Huaxia Nation has no fear that the Extreme Martial Arts Hall will usurp their authority or seize political power after growing too large.
Precisely because of this, in order to maintain the transcendent status of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, the headquarters compounds established in base cities across the Huaxia Nation are permitted to maintain a private armed force to prevent any short-sighted scoundrels from coming to disturb the lives of the martial artists.